On 50th anniversary of Apostolicam Actuositatem, considers call “to animate every environment, every activity, every human relation according to the spirit of the Gospel, bringing light, hope, and the charity received from Christ to those places that otherwise would remain foreign to God’s action and abandoned to the misery of the human condition”

If there were such a thing as “Vatican veterans Slovak Cardinal Josef Tomko would be first among them. He came to Rome in 1945, just before the end of the World War II, and worked alongside John XXIII, the Pope who kicked off the Second Vatican Council

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 27, 2009 (Zenit.org).- As part of the anniversary celebrations marking 50 years since the convocation of the Second Vatican Council, a new DVD is available detailing the history of the event.